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We use a wide range of ecological, paleolimnological and biogeographical techniques to study long-term environmental change in lake ecosystems in response to multiple stressors. Much of our current work has a strong northern focus.

On this site you will find information about us and our research. Please feel free to contact us!

What's new?

August 3, 2017: New publication in Environmental Science & TechnologyOur new review paper is online as "just accepted" in ES&T, focused on the overlap, history, and potential of further linking paleolimnology with ecotoxicology.

February 23, 2017: New Research on widespread landscape flooding in the Mackenzie Bison SanctuaryOur new publication, in Nature Communications, explores lake expansion and flooding in the southern Northwest Territories over varying timescales, and the implications for wood bison. Check out the media page for this project for more information!

January 9, 2017: Josh begins three-year term as Secretary-Treasurer of the Society of Canadian LimnologistsTaking over from Dr. Roberto Quinlan after his two successful mandates, Josh will serve on the Executive Committee of SCL for the next three years. This coincides with the exciting period during which SCL will incorporate, happening soon. Josh is very excited for the new role with the first academic society he joined as a graduate student. Check out the SCL website.

“The thing the ecologically illiterate don’t realize about an ecosystem is that it’s a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, a flowing from point to point. If something dams the flow, order collapses. The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late. That’s why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.” - Frank Herbert’s Dune